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Daily Archives: 03/19/2009
Canadian comic book character Dan Cooper may have inspired hijacker “D.B. Cooper”
A National Post article by Randy Boswell reports that the FBI have revealed that the name and escape method of infamous airline hijacker D.B. Cooper may have been inspired by French Canadian comic hero Dan Cooper of the Royal Canadian Air Force:
An FBI agent probing one of the bureau’s most famous cold cases — the 1971 disappearance of hijacker-parachutist “D.B. Cooper” somewhere over the U.S. Pacific Northwest — has announced a bizarre development in the investigation: a new theory that the mystery man’s name and escape method were inspired by a French comic book’s Canadian hero.
Prompted by Internet chatter about the case, which continues to fascinate legions of amateur sleuths nearly 40 years after Cooper parachuted from a hijacked passenger jet with $200,000 in ransom money, Seattle-based FBI agent Larry Carr laid out the possible Canadian connection this week on the bureau’s website.
Pointing to the 1960s-era French-language comic book character Dan Cooper — a Royal Canadian Air Force test pilot who battles enemies on Earth and in space — Mr. Carr says the mystery hijacker may have adopted the superhero’s name and been inspired by a particular cover showing the Canuck pilot on a parachute jump.
The parachuting issue was “published near the date of the hijacking,” the FBI notes, adding that the hijacker — while popularly known as “D.B. Cooper” because of a news reporter’s error after the crime took place — actually identified himself as “Dan Cooper” when he first boarded the plane at the airport in Portland, Ore.
The rest of the article can be read by clicking the link above.
Dan Cooper by Belgian Cartoonist Albert Weinberg (1922-) appeared originally in the weekly TINTIN Magasin. The Cooper strip started in 1954 and the stories have been collected into over 40 Dan Cooper graphic novels by various publishers including Editions du Lombard, Editions Fleurus, Editions Novedi (distributed by Hachette), Dargaud, Editions Loup, and is currently published by Editions Hibou in Europe.
Direct Market: Canadian Publishers – February 2009
From Diamond’s Top 300 Selling Comics to the Direct Market – February 2009
#156 Street Fighter IV #1 (of 4) UDON $3.95 – 9,889 copies
#184 Street Fighter II Turbo #4 UDON $3.95 – 7,997 copies
From Diamonds’s Top 300 Selling Graphic Novels to the Direct Market – February 2009
#71 Apple Anthology GN Vol. 2 UDON $34.95 – 1,238 copies
#73 Atomic Robo TP Vol. 2 RED 5 COMICS $19.95 – 1,229 copies
Jeff Lemire’s next project: SWEET TOOTH for DC/Vertigo, debuts in September 2009
The cover to Sweet Tooth #1 by Jeff Lemire
For Immediate Release:
DC/VERTIGO Announces New Monthly Series By JEFF LEMIRE
DC Comics’ mature readers imprint VERTIGO has announced that Eisner-nominated comics creator Jeff Lemire (Essex County, The Nobody) will be writing and illustrating a new monthly ongoing series entitled SWEET TOOTH. The series will launch this September, only two months after Lemire’s Vertigo debut THE NOBODY, an original graphic novel, is due in stores.
Lemire describes the series: “SWEET TOOTH is the story Gus, a young boy born with deer-like antlers. He has lived his entire life in total isolation in the woods with his Father. As our story begins Gus’ is finally forced to leave their forest sanctuary and begins experiencing the outside world for the first time. What he finds out there is beyond his comprehension; an American landscape decimated a decade earlier by a mysterious disease. Even more remarkable is that Gus is part of a rare new breed of human/animal hybrid children who have emerged in its wake, all apparently immune to the infection. The boy is soon taken in by Jepperd, a hulking drifter who promises to lead Gus to “The Preserve” a fabled safe-haven for hybrid children. Along the way a larger mystery surrounding the origins of the hybrids begins to unfold, with Gus and Jepperd at its center.”
Sweet Tooth recasts conventions from both the western and science fiction genres into an action/adventure tale of childhood loss and loneliness, and the unexpected friendships that can emerge in even the darkest of places.
The first 22-page, full-color issue ships in September and will feature story, art and covers by Lemire, with colors provided by Jose Villarubia (Promethea) and will carry a special cover price of only one-dollar!
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Newsarama also has a new interview with Jeff about the project: you can read by clicking here.
